Jamar Cortez Wooten, 21, is being charged with four counts of intimidation with a dangerous weapon. He has yet to be taken into custody.

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The shooting was reported on July 9 in the 400 block of East Bell Avenue.

The family reported to police that they were returning home when a driver cut them off at the corner of Southeast 5th Street and Indianola Road -- narrowly missing a crash. The father told police he yelled at the driver to be careful and drive safer.

The driver then yelled back and started following the family. They stopped in their neighborhood so the man would not know which house they lived in.

The father reports that the driver got out of his car and started yelling about wanting to fight.

"I get out of my truck, he gets out of his car to fight me and realizes I'm a lot bigger than him. He dives back into his car for a gun, pulls it out and commences to shooting at my truck," the father involved in the incident told KCCI the day after it happened. "When I turned back around, the guy had his arm out plain as day and 'click, click' twice, but nothing happened."

When the father saw the gun he told police he ran to his car telling his kids and wife to "get down."

The man shot twice more, hitting the front of the SUV near the windshield, narrowly missing the passenger seat where the man's wife was sitting. The police report shows the driver fired the gun twice at the father.

Police said the father's car appears to have been struck by a bullet while the children were inside. No serious injuries were reported.

Anyone with information on Wooten is asked to contact the Des Moines Police Communications Center at 515-283-4811 or the Polk County Crime Stoppers anonymously at 515-223-1400, or at http://www.polkcountycrimestoppers.org